Antiques trafficking, everyone's business
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Iraqi antiques stolen and found by Lebanese customs in 2008 (illustrative images).
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By: Lucile Wassermann Follow
21 min
Has the pandemic caused the traffic in antiques to resume on the rise?
The economic crisis caused by the coronavirus, coupled with the drop in surveillance of cultural places, would have aggravated the leak of antiques from illegal markets.
First victims: countries with a strong cultural heritage and in the grip of instability where looting has increased.
But you will hear it, in addition to emptying countries of their history, this traffic poses a real question of international security.
From Baghdad to Paris, via Lyon and Brussels, RFI has gone to meet the actors who fight against these illegal activities.
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